MATTHEW - CHAPTER 1.
I. THE BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF JESUS CHRIST
The ancestry tree of Jesus Christ
1. 1 This is the genealogy (familiy-tree) of Jesus(*1) Christ(*2) (the Messiah, the Anointed One), descendant(*3) of David and of Abraham.
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| Jesus Christ the Messiah. |
2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac was the father of Jacob, Jacob was the father of Judah and his brothers,
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| Abraham the father of many nations. |
3 Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar, Perez was the father of Hezron, Hezron was the father of Aram,
4 Aram was the father of Aminadab, Aminadab was the father of Nahshon, Nahshon was the father of Salmon,
5 Salmon was the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz was the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed was the father of Jesse,
6 Jesse was the father of King David
(*4),
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| The young David conquers Goliath with a sling-shot. |
King David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been the wife of Uriah,
7 Solomon was the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam was the father of Abijah, Abijah was the father of Asa,
8 Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat was the father of Joram [Jehoram], Joram was the father of Uzziah,
9 Uzziah was the father of Jotham, Jotham was the father of Ahaz, Ahaz was the father of Hezekiah,
10 Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, Manasseh was the father of Amon, Amon was the father of Josiah,
11 And Josiah was the father of Jeconiah and his brothers about the time of the exile (deportation) to Babylon. [II Kings 24:14; I Chron. 3:15, 16.]
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| Israel deported to Babylon for 50 years after they lost the war. |
12 After the exile to Babylon, Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel [Salathiel], Shealtiel was the father of Zerubbabel,
13 Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud, Abiud was the father of Eliakim, Eliakim was the father of Azor,
14 Azor was the father of Sadoc, Sadoc was the father of Achim, Achim was the father of Eliud,
15 Eliud was the father of Eleazar, Eleazar was the father of Matthan, Matthan was the father of Jacob,
16 Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, Who is called the Christ. (the Messiah, the Anointed One)
17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen, from David to the Babylonian exile (deportation) fourteen generations, from the Babylonian exile to the Christ fourteen generations.
The birth of Jesus Christ
18 Here is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place. When his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, before they were married, she was found to be pregnant from the Holy Spirit
(*5).
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| Mary pregnant from the Holy Spirit. |
19 Her husband-to-be, Joseph, was a man who did what was right; so he made plans to break the engagement quietly, rather than put her to public shame.
20 But while he was thinking about this, an angel of the LORD
(ADONAI) appeared to him in a dream and said, "
Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home with you as your wife; for what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus [which means 'The LORD (ADONAI) saves'], because he will save his people from their sins."
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| Joseph's dream with the angel. |
22 All this happened in order to fulfill what LORD
(ADONAI ) had said through the prophet
(*6),
23 "The virgin will conceive and bear a son,
and they
will call him Emmanuel." (Isaiah 7:14)
(Emmanuel means: "God is with us.")
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| Isaiah 7:14: The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him Emmanuel. |
24 When Joseph awoke he did what the angel of LORD
(ADONAI) had told him to do - he took Mary home to be his wife,
25 but he did not have sexual relations with her until she had given birth to a son, and he named him Jesus)
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| Joseph, Mary and the new-born Jesus. |
